"Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ..."

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Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

Vernon Lee

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“Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.”

Source : Michael Foot (1980). “Debts of Honour”, London : Davis Poynter
“One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.”
“If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.”
“Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!”
“Ever since I've become a filmmaker, I'm traveling the world a lot. I feel like I'm a citizen of the world, yet there's no single place that I can put my roots down and call home. I don't own anything. I'm not a homeowner. I've always rented and never stayed in one place for long. Almost every time I rent a place, I have some sort of water leakage or flooding. Whenever that happens, I just move somewhere else. Even when I moved to Paris, my apartment started leaking after a month. Maybe the leaking is just part of my life, doomed to follow me around.”
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".”
“Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".”
“You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.”

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